The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
The dinosaur ancestors of birds laid blue, brown, and speckled eggs as far back as 150 million years ago.
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
A large new study finds smartphone ownership positively correlated with multiple measures of well being in 11- to 13-year-old kids.
Cultivated meat isn't challenging slaughtered meat anytime soon. But states keep trying to restrict competition.
The past three administrations have tried and failed to implement binding regulations on risky research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
An experiment with staggering implications for the future of human reproduction.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
The new, coarser world will likely be with us for years to come.
What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually?
Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says.
Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says.
A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.
HHS, like all government programs, has plenty of silly and wasteful line items in its budget; there's no need to just make things up.
The Good Eats host talks about the virtues of Cap'n Crunch, why fusion cooking isn't cultural appropriation, and how Martha Stewart's perfectionism ruined dinner parties.
The five-year survival rate of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is currently 13 percent.
A new study claims addiction is on the rise because internet searches for gambling terms are increasing.
A radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond has the potential to power devices for thousands of years.
Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?
Robert Roberson was sentenced to death based on outdated and largely discredited scientific evidence.
The founder of Skeptic magazine discusses whether conspiracy thinking is on the rise and whether it's coded right or left.
The focus on the health risks of alcohol consumption gives short shrift to the reasons people like to drink.
The evidence is vast but open to interpretation because observational studies are inherently ambiguous.
Federal prosecutors said creating hybrid animals is "unnatural," yet the practice is common in the game industry.
So let's all enjoy a moderate toast to a Happy New Year!
The process "reduces the duration of treatment cycles to just three days" and "replaces 80% of hormone injections required with traditional IVF," Gameto says.
Based Beff Jezos, co-founder of Extropic, discusses AI safety, decentralization, and going analog.
Cultivated meat is getting better and better. That's why states keep trying to ban it.
When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.
Making DOI and DOC Schedule I drugs would interfere with psychiatric research.
The Trump campaign is all in on RFK Jr.'s debunked anti-vax crusade.
A trucker lost his job because he tested positive for marijuana after consuming a supposedly THC-free CBD tincture.
A recent American Cancer Society study reports a negligible risk from passive smoking, shedding new light on the uproar over a 2003 paper.
Not only are microplastics essentially unavoidable, but the alleged harm they pose has been wildly overblown.
On Call, Anthony Fauci's new memoir, can't disguise the damage caused by his COVID-19 policies.
The medication shouldn't be this controversial.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
The FDA, which approved the protocols for the studies it now questions, is asking for an additional Phase 3 clinical trial, which would take years and millions of dollars.
The authors of the meta-analysis misleadingly imply that pain treatment should be blamed for recent increases in drug-related deaths.
The agency claims DOI and DOC have "a high potential for abuse" because they resemble other drugs it has placed in Schedule I.
Life is a decentralized, horizontal network, not merely a centralized, hierarchical tree.
Collecting and analyzing newborns' blood could allow the state to surveil people for life.
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